<b>The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia.</b> <p/>We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . . <p/>Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . . <br>Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty . . . <p/>Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . . <p/>James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.<br><br><b>Author:</b> James Ellroy<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 04/24/2001<br><b>Pages:</b> 592<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.02lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.01h x 5.19w x 1.07d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780375727375<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the L.A. Qua